| | | | Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, receives a secret payment of at least $US400,000 to arrange talks between the US President and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last year, the BBC reports. | | | | An illegible page on David Leyonhjelm's register of interests was belatedly replaced, revealing the key crossbench senator as an investor in the Adani Abbot Point coal terminal. | | | | Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with her ex-spy father in a nerve agent attack, says they're lucky to be alive and recovery has been slow and painful, in her first public statement since the poisoning. | | | | It is believed Year 9 student Connor Petterson, from Brisbane's Marist College, became entangled and suffered neck and facial injuries while on a school camp north of the city. | | | | Kim Jenkins knows the man in the security camera footage is her dad, but his behaviour is far from recognisable. | | | | A federal judge in New York has ruled Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users because doing so violates their right to free speech. But she stops short of asking the President to unblock them. | | | | Think you know what teachers go through on a daily basis when they're shaping young minds and redirecting moral compasses? Well chances are you don't; school has changed a bit since you were there, writes Daniel Steel. | | | | The NFL Players Association immediately criticises the new policy, saying it was not consulted and that it may issue a challenge should it violate the collective bargaining agreement. | | | | A United States Government employee in southern China reports suffering from "abnormal" sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, the US embassy said — recalling similar experiences among American diplomats in Cuba. | | | | While the Coalition wonders what to do about the Senate impasse over its income tax plan, a controversial approach is being quietly discussed: splitting the election process and sending senators to the polls — but not members of the House of Representatives, writes political reporter Melissa Clarke. | | | | The audience of Stargazing Live on ABC TV discovers at least one new supernova — an exploding star — as part of the citizen science effort, a finding more than a billion years in the making. | | | | Researchers in Japan and China fear significant health implications, especially in poorer countries, after finding that protein, iron and zinc levels in rice all fell significantly when grown in higher carbon dioxide environments. | | | | Ann Sudmalis was facing a pre-selection challenge in her marginal New South Wales seat of Gilmore but the ABC understands Treasurer Scott Morrison and MPs Alex Hawke and Trent Zimmermann have worked behind the scenes to shore up her support. | | | | Former prime minister Tony Abbott signs petition saying the Federal Government should lobby Cambodia to release James Ricketson, who has been in prison on charges of espionage for almost a year. | | | | Is the conflict between religion and science as deep as some think? We talk to three scientists about how they reconcile their faith with their work. | | | | Prodigiously talented and utterly adored in his native Brazil, Neymar heads to his second World Cup four years older but with even more questions to answer. The next step in his journey will be telling. | | | | Malaysia's new Transport Minister calls time on the search for the 239 people who went missing aboard the doomed flight MH370, saying the US firm being paid millions to scour the ocean bed off Western Australia will cease operations next Tuesday. | | | | Hollywood movie Show Dogs comes under fire from child protection groups over scenes that send "a troubling message that grooms children for sexual abuse". | | | | Many stores — particularly those that spruik their ethical standards — are now offering "vegan leather" products. So are vegan leather goods just for those who want to avoid animal products? Or are they kinder on the environment too? | | | | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is 82 and constantly in and out of hospital. But talk of a successor is leaving Palestinians cold and indifferent. | | | | A woman's body is found on a North Cronulla Beach fully clothed with one external injury, puzzling detectives who are treating her death as suspicious. | | | | In the wake of US airstrikes on Syria, Liberal Senator Jim Molan raised concerns about Australian fuel supplies being affected by conflict in the Middle East. So how much do we have on hand? | | | | An enduring maritime mystery is solved as oceanographic researchers discover a Spanish galleon laden with gold that sank off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago. | | | | With only 39 per cent of Australians sent a potentially lifesaving bowel cancer home-screening kit using them, a behavioural science expert says midlife crisis could be behind the low take-up rate. | |  |
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